Month: May 2007

Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career DesignBy Laurence G. Boldt This is one of those rare books that puts things together from so many different areas and does it so well that…

What Happy People Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Life for the BetterBy Dan Baker A great and easy to read look at how to deal with negative things in our lives and move toward happiness.…

Now, Discover Your StrengthsBy Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D. Based on decades of research by the Gallup Organization, this book shows how focusing on enhancing people’s strengths is a much more effective approach toward satisfying experience than working…

The Appreciative Inquiry HandbookBy David L. Cooperrider, Diana L. Whitney, and Jacqueline M. Stavros A complete guide to planning, designing and completing Appreciative Inquiry initiatives, from short introductions to long-term undertakings. Provides lots of information to help you understand AI…

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceBy Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi A landmark in its focus on what works well for people, it practically founded the field of Positive Psychology. Flow is that feeling of being “in the zone” that comes only from…

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and InventionBy Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Building on his work on flow, the author explores what lies behind discovery and invention by studying interviews with a number of people internationally renowned in fields from the…

Who Do You Think You Are?By Dr. Nick Isbister and Dr. Martin Robinson Tapping very much into positive psychology and the appreciative perspective, the System of Identifying Motivated Abilities has been used for decades to help people and companies find…

The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking CapabilitiesBy Dennis Meadows & Linda Booth Sweeney Systems theory is a field that tries to explain how things work in general, drawing parallels across different areas to…

An Introduction to General Systems ThinkingBy Gerald M. Weinberg Understanding how systems work in general, one ends up uncovering assumptions and opening the way to sharp thinking, creativity and learning. This book is considered a classic in the field, providing…